The Back-end team

With passion we work on tomorrow's future

About us

The back-end team of Label A is experienced, diverse and driven. During daytime we work with proven techniques and after sunset we love to play around with bleeding-edge technologies during our #hacknights. We’re always looking for a challenge and definitely not afraid to solve complex problems!

At the moment we have 17 back-end developers divided over our two offices in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. We all have different expertises and personalities which makes us a solid team. They say opposites attract, and that definitely applies to us!

Tools & Frameworks

Python

PostgreSQL

ElasticSearch

Redis

Rabbit MQ

AWS SQS

Pyramid

Wagtail

Meet the team

This is our Back-end team. Want to be a part of it? Apply now on one of the vacancies!

Our big range of clients means a large variety of techniques. This gives us the opportunity to keep adding value to our projects, and just as important, to ourselves. One day you could be using Postgres in combination with Elasticsearch for full text search, the other day applying Machine Learning, Rabbit Message Queue and Microservices. That’s how we like it.

Besides using current techniques, we are always on the lookout for new, innovative ones. This way we keep adding value to our projects and stay ahead of our competitors and these of our clients.

We don’t like legacy systems. That’s why we love to build applications from the ground up. However, some third parties may be working with something less ‘up-to-date’, which can be quite a challenge to tackle. The moment we’re connecting an 18-year old cash register system never meant to meet the internet you might think ‘this can’t be done’? But oh yes, we will make it work!

DEVELOPMENT

Python

FACTS & FIGURES

Duration

HUUB

HUUB makes sharing electric cars, scooters and bikes with your neighbours or colleagues a piece of cake. It therefore offers a solution which needs less parking space and increases the quality of living in dense cities.

The back-end has been created in Python, but even more interesting is the fact that we are the connecting five different parties in the process: Greenwheels for cars, Gazelle for bikes, and others for public transport, escooters, payments & invoice management and user management.

Jeroen Rietveld

Our culture

At Label A you can expect flexibility, challenges and having a say in everything we do. If we think we need to do it differently, we change it ourselves without a hassle. Having this culture allows for continuous innovation. We always use the latest software (provided that it’s stable) and are always exploring new techniques. Security issues, Blockchain, Machine learning, we are on it! Sometimes clients are having a hard time to keep up with us, but we love to help them out.

Our motto is: ‘never leave a person behind’. We help each other when somebody is struggling, we don’t go home leaving others behind to finish the work alone. We also make sure everybody is happy! Besides working hard we love going to Meetups and congresses as CodeMotion and O’Reilly to keep developing ourselves. And hackathons? We just organize these ourselves.

What we stand for!

Be eager

We are eager in everything we do, with room for failure we learn and grow fast.

We aim to be the best in what we do, therefore we innovate and put ourselves in the client’s shoes. Make it happen!

Strive for fulfillment

We’re passionate about our craftsmanship and what we create. We care about our work and in return it adds value to our clients and Label A. We make impact!

Love what you do

50% of our awake state we work. Therefore it’s important we enjoy our jobs and be mindful about our work life balance.

Make sure you enjoy your job. Happiness is key!

We look out for each other

We’re a family. Every person is unique and we foster that. Trust is our core. We treat each other equally and with respect. Whatever happens, we help each other out. Workwise or personal. Stay authentic!

We strive to add value to your career!

Grow bigger

Our goal as Label A is that we will add value to your career! By adding value to peoples career we believe we can add value to the whole tech industry! We can be your kickstarter or maybe the accelerator in your work life.

Onboarding

First half year

A great onboarding is important to get the right start at Label A. We want you to get all the tools and help you need to be your best self!

Based on research they say it takes you half a year to be truly onboarded to a company, to completely own your job en feel comfortable and engaged.

Onboarding

Close guidance

We find it important that everybody gets close guidance and enough feedback in the first months to make sure expectations are clear and you feel comfortable in your new job. That’s why we have a program with check-in, evaluations and retrospectives ready for every newbie!

Onboarding

Way of working

We love SCRUM! To make sure everybody has the same way of working you will follow a training at Scrum academy with all the other newbies! If you want to you can go up for your Scrum Master certificate. We always try to let you join a project for the first two sprints, to experience Scrum on the job.

Onboarding

Emergenetics workshop

During this workshop you get your own profile of your thinking and behavioral preferences. You will also learn to understand the profile of your team members, how cool is that!

Onboarding

Technical training

Growing and learning is in our core. We believe you learn the most by trial and error on the job, but it is good to have some support to also work on your skills besides your projects. This is why we provide technical online training via ….

Quarterly Evaluation

We love rhythm

Quarterly Evaluation

Recharge company

The Recharge program has a quarterly rhythm and helps with living healthier with as a result more focus and energy!

Recharge company

Quarterly with the whole team

Living healthier

More focus and energy

Quarterly Evaluation

Improvement Cycle

We don’t believe in a traditional performance reviews but we do believe in growth. That’s why we sit down every quarter in one on ones to discuss goals, you collect feedback from your peers and you do a self assessment to get better step by step.

One on ones

Peer feedback

Self assessment

Goal setting

Quarterly Evaluation

Skill training

Quarterly company wide training to improve skills

Think off:

Personal leadership

Presentation skills

Client contact

Coaching each other

Quarterly Evaluation

Powerbreak

The Label A Powerbreak. The powerbreak is a moment with a maximum of 5 days that you can use to work on your professional development for example research and development. Is there a interesting subject you want to completely dive into, a hackathon you want to join or a course you want to attend, this is your moment to do so without distractions!

Offboarding

Hello, goodbye

Offboarding

Help you out

We find it important that we can talk openly about next steps. It’s great if you can find your next challenge here at Label A but it is possible that realize it's out there. We guide you and check out if we can help with career coaching or helping to find a new challenge.

Offboarding

Spread love & knowledge

At the end we want you to be able to walk out and say, I’ve grown and learned so much and I had an awesome time!

Want to know more about us?

This is Freya, your to-go-to-woman for all your questions. Well, not all, but you get the point.

Want to know more about a vacant position? About our organization? Want to get to know us over a cup of coffee? Drop her a line or give her a call. See you soon?